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Indie Bestsellers Week of 09.11.19

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1. Where the Crawdads Sing ★ 1. Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead Delia Owens, Putnam, $26 Jim Mattis, Bing West, , $28 2. A Better Man 2. Educated Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99 Tara Westover, Random House, $28 ★ 3. 3. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for , Doubleday, $24.95 Common Real-World Problems Randall Munroe, Riverhead Books, $28 ★ 4. The Secrets We Kept Lara Prescott, Knopf, $26.95 4. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson, Harper, $24.99 5. Circe Madeline Miller, Little Brown, $27 5. The Pioneers David McCullough, S&S, $30 6. The Girl Who Lived Twice 6. How to Be an Antiracist David Lagercrantz, Knopf, $27.95 Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27 7. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous 7. Becoming Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $26 Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50 8. Inland 8. Three Women Téa Obreht, Random House, $27 Lisa Taddeo, Avid Reader Press/S&S, $27 9. Chances Are . . . 9. Trick Mirror , Knopf, $26.95 Jia Tolentino, Random House, $27 ★ 10. This Tender Land ★ 10. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber William Kent Krueger, Atria, $27 Mike Isaac, Norton, $27.95 11. City of Girls 11. Everything Is F*cked Mark Manson, Harper, $26.99 Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $28 ★ 12. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone 12. Quichotte Lori Gottlieb, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28 13. Is There Still Sex in the City? 13. The Turn of the Key Candace Bushnell, Grove Press, $26 Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $27.99 14. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat 14. Normal People Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton (Illus.), S&S, Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $26 $35 15. One Good Deed 15. The Source of Self-Regard David Baldacci, Grand Central, $29 , Knopf, $28.95 Indies Introduce Other Indie Favorites Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?: A Novel, by Dominicana: A Novel, by Angie Cruz (Flatiron Brock Clarke (Algonquin Books, $26.95) “Brock Books, $26.99) “Angie Cruz is a beautiful writer with a Clarke is a genius. His writing is consistently brilliant and stylish, powerful voice, and readers of Julia Alvarez and Sandra Cisneros will which makes the quiet moments of human understanding even more greatly enjoy this book! Dominicana is a riveting story about family, striking. I LOVE this book—it is unexpected (like all his work—how womanhood, and what it means to be an immigrant. Ana Cancion, can that be?), surprising, and profoundly moving. Fans of Jim Shepard and George Saunders will love Clarke and his new book about a who’s only 15, leaves her home behind for a new life in New York middle-aged man whose discovery of a secret aunt (is she a spy? a City with her soon-to-be husband, Juan Ruiz. Big lights, tall buildings, fake? his mom? crazy?) leads him across Europe in pursuit of... well, and a bright future constitute the promise of a new beginning. he isn’t quite sure yet. I laughed out loud, I chortled, I snickered However, upon Ana’s arrival, her fate untangles into something quietly, I gasped. I can see putting this book into the hands of fans of unexpected. It’ll be really hard to forget these characters and the by and Where’d You Go Bernadette—readers realness in their heartache. Throughout these pages, I fell in and out who like to be surprised.” —Mary Cotton, Newtonville of love, I laughed, I cried, and I was deeply moved.” —Cristina Books, Newton Centre, MA Lebron, Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across America. Copyright American Booksellers Association. All rights reserved. = Debut